What Do I Use?
Inspiration
After seeing a post by Jan-Lukas Else about them, I decided to join the growing number of folks who are sharing lists of what they use. Use the links below to jump to a specific section.
Hardware | Software | Websites
Hardware
Desktop 1 (Home) - Sonata
- Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC Mate
- CPU: Intel Core i5 4590
- RAM: 32gb DDR3 (Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x8gb)
- GPU: EVGA nVidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti
- Storage: 2x500gb SSD, 1x1tb HDD
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Displays: 2x1080p generics
- Case: Antec Sonata III
Desktop 2 (Work) - Amory
- Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer
- CPU: Intel Core i5 4460
- RAM: 32gb DDR3 (Kingston HyperX FURY 4x8gb)
- GPU: ASUS nVidia Geforce GT 640
- Storage: 2x500gb SSD, 1x256gb m.2, 1x1tb HDD
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Displays: 2x1080p generics + 1x1080p in portrait
- Case: Lian Li PC-7 A Plus
Laptop 1 - Newo
- Brand: Microsoft Surface Book 1 - TechRadar
- CPU: Intel Core i5 6300U
- RAM: 8gb
- Storage: 128gb internal, 128gb SD as VHD
- Display Resolution: 3000x2000 pixels
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
Laptop 2
- Brand: Lenovo ThinkPad T410 - NotebookReview
- CPU: Intel Core i7 620
- RAM: 8gb
- Storage: 128gb SSD
- Display Resolution: 1440x900 pixels
- OS: Lubuntu 19.04
Home Media Server - Ambellina
- Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LE
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2400
- RAM: 8gb DDR3 (Samsung 2x4gb)
- GPU: EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
- Storage: 1x250gb SSD, 34.7tb of HDDs in two-way mirror Storage Space (similar-ish to RAID-10) with 1x250gb SSD as write-cache
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Case: Some generic Rosewill thing
Phone - Google Pixel 3 (128gb) - Verizon
- Root Status: Not-rooted
- Launcher: Nova Launcher Prime
- Ad-Blocker: Blokada
- Weather: Today Weather
- Keyboard: Gboard
- Messages/SMS: Android Messages (with Android Messages Desktop)
- Photos: Google Photos, Piktures
- Password Manager: Bitwarden
- Other Vital Apps: F-Droid, Greenify, Amazfit Tools, andOTP, Auto Dark Theme, Backdrops, CoSy for Facebook, Pushbullet, ScreenCam, Solid Explorer, Simple Scrobbler, Tasker, Twitch 2! Contacts Formatter, Wallpaper Changer, Wifi Analyzer
Software
Productivity & Work
- Email: Wavebox Pro
- Chat: Slack
- Creative: Adobe Creative Cloud + Inkscape + GIMP
- Office: LibreOffice Fresh
- File Manager: Total Commander
- Remote Desktop: AnyDesk
- PDF Reader: SumatraPDF
- Lists & Deadlines: Trello
- Screen Capture: screen2gif + ffmpeg
Other Windows Software I Use
Other Development Tools - Windows
- Terminal: Windows Terminal
- Font: Fira Code
- Shells: WSL2 (Ubuntu, Bash), Powershell Core, CMD
- Git GUI: Git-Fork
- Package Manager: Chocolatey
- Image Compression: FileOptimizer
- SFTP: WinSCP
- Key Management: PUTTY
- Virtualization: VMWare Workstation
- Remote Version Control: BitBucket
Other Development Tools - Linux
- Someday I’ll get this together, but mostly iTerm2, nano, Firefox
Code Editor: VS Code Insiders
- Extensions: Settings Sync, Alignment, Auto Close Tag, Auto Time Stamp, Autoprefixer, Beautify, Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, Can I Use, Color Highlight, CSS Peek, JS & CSS Minifier, Live Sass Compiler, Live Server, markdownlint, PHP Intelephense, Prettier, Python, Remote - WSL, SCSS Everywhere, SCSS IntelliSense, Spell Right, SVG, SVG Viewer, Trailing Spaces, WooCommerce - Snippets, Wordpress Snippets, XML Tools
- Font: Fira Code
- Color Theme: Monokai Dark Soda or Material Theme
- File Icon Theme: Material Icon Theme
Browser: Google Chrome
- Extensions: uBlock Origin + Extra + Nano Defender, Auto Tab Discard, AutoplayStopper, Bitwarden, ColorZilla, Dark Reader, DevTools Author, Dimensions, FluffBusting Purity, Just Read, LanguageTool Nimbus Screenshot, Octo Mate, Old Reddit Redirect, PopUpOFF, Pushbullet, Reddit Enhancement Suite, Save to Pocket, Smile Always, Tab Session Manager, Tampermonkey, Toolbox for Google Play Store, Toucan - Spanish, Tracking Token Stripper, View Image Info
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